I have the same feelings about mouse and keyboard. Great when you are just starting out, but I always think there has to be a better way to enter text and use the system. Faster and less error-prone at least. I love Swype on the phone since it is at least something different than tap tap tap tap tap.
Heh heh I love the irony! I have to agree, I tried some of the $3 books on Amazon and probably won't try any more. The books were sorely in need of not only basic error correction but some professional editing. Contradictory plot elements, repetitive characters, and other nightmares were common. I wouldn't look forward to self-published world, unless 'edited by xxxx' became a valuable marketing tool where people shopped editors as well as authors. Meanwhile, I don't begrudge a few extra dollars for the added service of a professional editor.
Could this be rephrased as "productivity per worker is increasing"? Agreed that companies are doing more with less in some cases due to efficiency and automation. I don't agree this has anything to do with huge unemployment and inequality problems. Unless you are assuming that there is a limited supply of economic activity and if that is done by robots no one will have a job?
I think throwing words like "retarded" makes it hard to understand how someone else is a troll. There are plenty of countries that didn't sign the Kyoto protocol besides the US. The US just happens to be the most industrialized of those. This doesn't count the countries that get a free pass under Kyoto since it wasn't economically convenient for them.
"In fact, Apple actually exemplifies some of the reasons why the U.S. has such huge unemployment and inequality problems: 'Digital' businesses like Apple employ far fewer people than traditional manufacturing businesses"
That's quite a reach, to say Apple only needs X people, therefore this is a contributing factor to unemployment and inequality.
Thanks, Ill take a look at this. I might be misreading, but the abstract seems to clarify all the other factors that negated any impact on unemployment: "The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market frictions; offsets via the tax credit system; incomplete compliance; improvements in productivity; an increase in the relative price of minimum wage-produced consumer services; and a reduction in the relative profits of firms employing low paid workers."
"tax credits", "incomplete compliance", and "impact on hours" jump out here. So unless the rest of the text somehow contravenes these factors it doesn't look especially convincing.
I know a couple small business owners who either started paying workers under the table or simply got rid of benefits as a direct result of minimum wage increases. That's anecdotal, I know. I haven't seen any studies on workers going off the books in these circumstances, probably pretty difficult to get good information in that situation.
Meanwhile, I'll offer up the work of Walter Williams on the effect of minimum wage laws on black unemployment in the United States, see his book "Race and Economics", as well as the following from http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/against/against.htm
Card, David and Alan B. Krueger, "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry In New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review. September 1994: pp. 772-793.
Brandon, Peter, Jobs Taken by Mothers Moving from Welfare to Work and the Effects of Minimum Wages on this Transition. Employment Policies Institute: Washington, DC, 1995.
Neumark, David and William Wascher, The Effects of Minimum Wages on Teenage Employment and Enrollment: Evidence from Matched CPS Surveys. National Bureau for Economic Research: Cambridge, MA, 1995.
For an example: http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/against/against.htm
There are competing studies of course, studies of society being what they are. But to use an extreme example, why not raise the minimum wage to $25/hr? I don't think anyone seriously proposes that, the effects on employment would seem pretty severe at that level.
There are examples of despised non-integrated minorities who were an economic success: Jews and Chinese come to mind. There are also plenty of "black" people who were successful economically, even rich, during the pre-Civil Rights days in the USA. My point is that cultural assimilation and even lack of open discrimination are not necessarily barriers to economic success.
Increases in the minimum wage increase unemployment, so it isn't hard to see how this fails to benefit workers. Why has Joe 10k bought a house? He can't afford all the taxes and maintenance on it.
The NJ turnpike was originally built by private investors. And of course there are literally thousands of non-profits and not-for-profits out there that aren't government agencies. So you can pretend that only money-profitable things would get done in a free market, but you can't magically make history unhappen.
I will agree. The problem with any phrases like "socially useful" is that it only reflects one person's opinion. It would be (has been already) an horrific tyranny where one group's claim of "socially useful" determines what everyone else can and cannot do. Obviously, someone finds it useful since someone is paying for it.
Central planning hasn't worked yet on any large scale. See for example, Soviet Union, Communist China, North Korea. The problems with mis-allocation of capital is mostly caused by central planning, such as skewing the market by artificially lowering credit or creating markets for secondhand mortgages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinvestment
There is no such thing really as "other sites." Your browser loads bits and pieces from all over the place on practically every page you visit, such as ads, 'like' and 'share' buttons, etc. And each of these requests to different sites for all these bits and bobs on the page carries information on what site you think you are visiting, etc. This is standard web browser behavior. When you load that little button or thingie from facebook.com your browser tells Facebook what page you loaded it from and also helpfully sends along any cookies it has for Facebook.com domain. This is by no means unique to Facebook, you could find the same thing with reddit, digg, google, or any other site that has bits and pieces being loaded as part of other people's pages.
An ad hominem attack is also a form of manipulation. I'd like to think even more perceptive and discerning readers will judge the arguments on the facts and merits. It is almost guaranteed that anyone who tries to support certain positions will be called an 'industry apologist'
No Libertarian is okay with this because broadband is not a free market. If there were a true free market in broadband access, it would be any operator's right to manage their networks however they choose. What we have now are monopolies created by government, so it's no violation of Libertarian principles to say I should be allowed to do whatever I want on the network I was forced to pay for.
Maybe you hadn't heard that the Federal Reserve has been printing money to buy Treasury bonds. That's not the market buying debt, that is US taxpayers being forced to pay it off when the bonds become due.
"basic economic data is that when countries are in a recession, they should increase government spending (especially on infrastructure like rails). Countries that cut spending then tend to fall further into recession."
Where are these data? US history is full of recessions that ebbed when gov't spending was cut. Only when spending was dramatically increased did we start getting Great Depressions
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I have the same feelings about mouse and keyboard. Great when you are just starting out, but I always think there has to be a better way to enter text and use the system. Faster and less error-prone at least. I love Swype on the phone since it is at least something different than tap tap tap tap tap.
Heh heh I love the irony! I have to agree, I tried some of the $3 books on Amazon and probably won't try any more. The books were sorely in need of not only basic error correction but some professional editing. Contradictory plot elements, repetitive characters, and other nightmares were common. I wouldn't look forward to self-published world, unless 'edited by xxxx' became a valuable marketing tool where people shopped editors as well as authors. Meanwhile, I don't begrudge a few extra dollars for the added service of a professional editor.
Could this be rephrased as "productivity per worker is increasing"? Agreed that companies are doing more with less in some cases due to efficiency and automation. I don't agree this has anything to do with huge unemployment and inequality problems. Unless you are assuming that there is a limited supply of economic activity and if that is done by robots no one will have a job?
I see, my thanks, my knowledge was out of date.
I think throwing words like "retarded" makes it hard to understand how someone else is a troll. There are plenty of countries that didn't sign the Kyoto protocol besides the US. The US just happens to be the most industrialized of those. This doesn't count the countries that get a free pass under Kyoto since it wasn't economically convenient for them.
"In fact, Apple actually exemplifies some of the reasons why the U.S. has such huge unemployment and inequality problems: 'Digital' businesses like Apple employ far fewer people than traditional manufacturing businesses" That's quite a reach, to say Apple only needs X people, therefore this is a contributing factor to unemployment and inequality.
I would be very tempted to find the wireless bits and break them. DAMN KIDS!
Thanks, Ill take a look at this. I might be misreading, but the abstract seems to clarify all the other factors that negated any impact on unemployment: "The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market frictions; offsets via the tax credit system; incomplete compliance; improvements in productivity; an increase in the relative price of minimum wage-produced consumer services; and a reduction in the relative profits of firms employing low paid workers." "tax credits", "incomplete compliance", and "impact on hours" jump out here. So unless the rest of the text somehow contravenes these factors it doesn't look especially convincing. I know a couple small business owners who either started paying workers under the table or simply got rid of benefits as a direct result of minimum wage increases. That's anecdotal, I know. I haven't seen any studies on workers going off the books in these circumstances, probably pretty difficult to get good information in that situation. Meanwhile, I'll offer up the work of Walter Williams on the effect of minimum wage laws on black unemployment in the United States, see his book "Race and Economics", as well as the following from http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/against/against.htm Card, David and Alan B. Krueger, "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry In New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review. September 1994: pp. 772-793. Brandon, Peter, Jobs Taken by Mothers Moving from Welfare to Work and the Effects of Minimum Wages on this Transition. Employment Policies Institute: Washington, DC, 1995. Neumark, David and William Wascher, The Effects of Minimum Wages on Teenage Employment and Enrollment: Evidence from Matched CPS Surveys. National Bureau for Economic Research: Cambridge, MA, 1995.
For an example: http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/against/against.htm There are competing studies of course, studies of society being what they are. But to use an extreme example, why not raise the minimum wage to $25/hr? I don't think anyone seriously proposes that, the effects on employment would seem pretty severe at that level.
There are examples of despised non-integrated minorities who were an economic success: Jews and Chinese come to mind. There are also plenty of "black" people who were successful economically, even rich, during the pre-Civil Rights days in the USA. My point is that cultural assimilation and even lack of open discrimination are not necessarily barriers to economic success.
Increases in the minimum wage increase unemployment, so it isn't hard to see how this fails to benefit workers. Why has Joe 10k bought a house? He can't afford all the taxes and maintenance on it.
This either proves or disproves anthropogenic global warming
The NJ turnpike was originally built by private investors. And of course there are literally thousands of non-profits and not-for-profits out there that aren't government agencies. So you can pretend that only money-profitable things would get done in a free market, but you can't magically make history unhappen.
Maybe from here? http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-please-help-editadd-so-th/
I will agree. The problem with any phrases like "socially useful" is that it only reflects one person's opinion. It would be (has been already) an horrific tyranny where one group's claim of "socially useful" determines what everyone else can and cannot do. Obviously, someone finds it useful since someone is paying for it.
Central planning hasn't worked yet on any large scale. See for example, Soviet Union, Communist China, North Korea. The problems with mis-allocation of capital is mostly caused by central planning, such as skewing the market by artificially lowering credit or creating markets for secondhand mortgages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinvestment
Is it ironic that there is a Facebook widget right on the /. page with this story?
There is no such thing really as "other sites." Your browser loads bits and pieces from all over the place on practically every page you visit, such as ads, 'like' and 'share' buttons, etc. And each of these requests to different sites for all these bits and bobs on the page carries information on what site you think you are visiting, etc. This is standard web browser behavior. When you load that little button or thingie from facebook.com your browser tells Facebook what page you loaded it from and also helpfully sends along any cookies it has for Facebook.com domain. This is by no means unique to Facebook, you could find the same thing with reddit, digg, google, or any other site that has bits and pieces being loaded as part of other people's pages.
I wonder if he has windows in his home. That's a terrible vulnerability that we have endured for centuries and somehow civilization survives.
This gentleman may need to revise his theory. http://www.timecube.com/ NSFW due to some naughty language
An ad hominem attack is also a form of manipulation. I'd like to think even more perceptive and discerning readers will judge the arguments on the facts and merits. It is almost guaranteed that anyone who tries to support certain positions will be called an 'industry apologist'
No Libertarian is okay with this because broadband is not a free market. If there were a true free market in broadband access, it would be any operator's right to manage their networks however they choose. What we have now are monopolies created by government, so it's no violation of Libertarian principles to say I should be allowed to do whatever I want on the network I was forced to pay for.
I wonder if it can also be used to prevent teenagers from using the PC. Ref: "Mosquito Repels Youths" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/05/earlyshow/living/main1095665.shtml
Maybe you hadn't heard that the Federal Reserve has been printing money to buy Treasury bonds. That's not the market buying debt, that is US taxpayers being forced to pay it off when the bonds become due.
"basic economic data is that when countries are in a recession, they should increase government spending (especially on infrastructure like rails). Countries that cut spending then tend to fall further into recession." Where are these data? US history is full of recessions that ebbed when gov't spending was cut. Only when spending was dramatically increased did we start getting Great Depressions